The battle with Raiga rages on. Lee is wounded, but with the delivery of the life saving curry all of the ninjas are awake and ready to continue the fight. Lee's drunken style of boxing once again proves to be very powerful. Raiga believes Ranmaru once again to be dead and unleashes all his power at Lee. Naruto steps in and defends the fallen Lee. Naruto defeats Raiga and the team is ready to to depart back to Konoha.

Our ninja teams are asked by Tsunade to train some of the younger students. Their assignment to climb all the way to the top of the mountain with their team. Everyone is doing well except for Naruto's team. Naruto and his team try to scale the mountain in a very dangerous storm. Though they do not do very well, Naruto manages to teach them all about the value of team work and caring for their team mates.

Naruto, Hinata, and Kiba are assigned a bounty hunting mission. They meet a mysterious swordsman who is also a bounty hunter. This bounty hunter is after the same bounty as they are. He quickly disables our all of our ninjas and chases after 5 Inch nails alone. He is defeated and our ninjas are left to attend to the wounded bounty hunter. Our ninjas discover that the bounty hunter they saved, is in fact a criminal!

Our ninjas find out that 5 Inch Nails framed the bounty hunter that they saved for a murder. He tell everyone of how it happened and how he became a bounty hunter. Our ninjas leave with more resolve to find 5 inch nails and determine he is out to steal a golden temple bell. They are ambushed by clone ninjas from 5 Inch Nails. 5 Inch Nails is captured and finally our bounty hunter is proved to be innocent.

164: Ososugita suketto
The late helper

In this episode Guy and Lee leave for a mission and some crazy people decide to impersonate Guy and Lee. Kakshi quickly finds them and reports them to Tsunade. They are quickly kept busy and given a job to work in a farm. Naruto accompanies them and believes it to be training. They are given many different tasks around the village basically to entertain our ninjas. In the end the copy cats are kicked out of the village and nothing really happens.

A mysterious ghost appears and Naruto discovers the emmisary from the nation of birds and Tsunade sends Neji, TenTen and Naruto out to investigate this ghost. Our ninjas must make a long journey to the nation of birds. Our ninjas chase the ghost and defeat it, but the suit of armor is left empty. How will our ninjas solve this mystery.

Our ninjas meet with a few people from the town and continue to investigate this ghost. Naruto's team continues to investigate Kureaki and find the ghost. They discover the ghost is actually a ninja in disguise, and it attacks and this time he is much more powerful. The ghost is defeated again, but the ninja once again manages to escape.

Kureaki has confessed it seems this affair is solved. Neji sends Naruto to further investigate the Cursed Warrior. Naruto is caught by the guards and thrown into the dungeon. He once again meets face to face with the cursed warrior and unmaskes him. He is none other than the Premier. Naruto is sentenced to death, and Kakashi appears and stops Neji and TenTen from rescuing him.

165: Naruto shisu
Naruto dies

Our team uses substitutes to make the enemy ninjas believe that they have abandoned Naruto. Just as Kurekai is about to be executed the cursed warrior appears to rescue him. Kakashi orders the others to hide and he confronts the enemy ninjas. Kakashi battles the rock ninja, and the learn the history of what has happened. Will Kakashi be able to defeat this powerful rock ninja, and what will our ninja team do with this new information?

We begin with a short review of what has happened in the previous episodes and then we jump right back into the mission. Kakashi managed to defeat the enemy ninja using his Thunder Cut technique. Egret is off to seek his revenge for the murder of his family. Egret is revealed to be Ibis his sister. Naruto reveals himself and saves Ibis. The learder of the wandering ninjas (Houki) manages to escape and Naurto gives chase. Naruto begins to battle with the Houki and defeats him.

Naruto and Choji are in search of soup noodles and discover that cooking ninjas have kidnapped Miss Shoubu. Our ninjas discover the identity of the kidnappers and that the soup cook must create a brand new soup. Choji, Naruto, and Sakura offer to help and they learn how to cook soup. Each ninja uses his/her unique abilities to create the perfect soup noodles and win the competition thus saving Shoubu.

Shino, Ino, and Naruto are sent with Anko to investigate sea monsters appearing in the Nation of Sea. As they arrive Anko has a flashback involving Orochimaru and her past as a child. Naruto saves a young woman while they are waiting to get to the Nation of the Sea. As they start off on their boat they are ambushed. Naruto is knocked out and sunk to the bottom of the sea. He is rescued by the same girl he saved earlier. Will our team be able to defeat these new powerful ninjas?

We are introduced to Sasuke and Orochimaru in the beginning of this episode. Anko meet with the leader of the Nation of Sea, and then the team begins their search for Naruto. In their search for Naruto, Ino and Shino learn about the mysterious island and the disappearance of Isaribi. Our team discovers that Isarabi might have been a previous experiemnt of Orochimaru's and she is taken by one of the same ninjas they battled earlier. Will our ninjas be able to get to the bottom of this mystery?

Because of the curse seal on her neck Anko collapases and dreams once again of her past. Ank tells the team of the whole story behind Orochimaru and the human experiments. They decide that they will investigate the island where Orochimaru's base once was. Shino does battle with one of the ninjas while Anko, Ino, and Naruto continue on and run into Tenchi and Isarabi. Our ninjas must rush to an exit while the lab is collapsing. Will they make it?

Our ninjas escape the lab and set our off in an attempt to save the money ship. The ships are being attacked just as our ninja team arrives. Each of the ninjas is doing battle with one of the opponents. Naruto appears to be defeated and once again comes face to face with the Nine Tails Fox who lives inside him and uses his power to escape.

Naruto manages to defeat the monster, and Shino with the help of Ino is able to defeat the other enemy ninja. Unfortunately the Sea Kid summoned by the ninja still lives, and Naruto summons the Boss Toad to do battle with it. Anko captures Tenchi and continues onto the island alone to recover her lost memories of her past with Orochimaru.

Naruto is assigned to be a body guard for an old friend of Tsunade, but he soon finds out that he is actually baby-sitting a spoiled child. The child uses money to lure his bodyguards and ends up creating more than a few problems for Naruto. Naruto must keep track of this child who believes that everything can be solved with money. Naruto completes his mission and helps the young child learn the value of things other than money.

Tsunade is overcome with bills. Tsunade sends Kiba, Hinata and Naruto on a treasure hunt and if their fail they are going to be sent back to school. Naruto and Kiba split up and race to a location. Naruto and Hinata end up getting caught and are once again tied up in a gave. They find out that their client is actually out to capture them and make clones of them, even Kiba is captured. The three clones are off to make trouble, what will the real team do?

Hinata is able to escape with the help of everyone and is able to save them using her unique skill, but the clones have already taken off towards the village. Our ninjas rush to catch up to their clones, and just barely make it. Kiba and Naruto chase down the clones and begin to do battle with them. The clones are really weak, but they still give chase. Kiba catches all of them, but Naruto is left to pay all of the bills of his clone. They discover that the mission was nothing but a test of their skills.

Naruto runs into a postman on his travels, and then runs into Jirayia in a town. He discovers Jirayia is actually looking out for a member of the Atsuki, and writing a script. Naruto finishes the script, and sends it out. Jirayia and Naruto now must chase down the postman to get the script back. They discover that the mail got mixed up and now must chase down another postman. All works out as they discover the Nation of Teeth is a great fan of Jirayia's writing and war is avoided.

Neji, Lee, and TenTen are sent out to protect the Hidden Star, and then Naruto appears to join the team. Naruto is saved by a Hidden Star ninja and then they meet with the leader of the village. Naruto and Subaru discover that the star has been stolen, and Naruto gives chase to the thief, but after a battle the thief manages to escape.

Neji and the rest of the team catch up with Naruto, and learn about the stolen star. They report the theft to the village leader and Naruto with the rest of the team are sent out to recover the stone. Naruto learns more about Subaru's past and Subaru and the others have caught the theif, but in one attack the thief manages to disable the team.. And once again the thief manages to escape.

Our team returns the injured ninjas to the village. We learn more about the plot involving the fallen star as well as the dangers of using it. Neji discovers the battle between the two, and rushes off to meet them, while TenTen and Lee discover that Subaru is in possesion of the village leader. Naruto is cast into the Valley of Hell, will he and the renegade Hidden Star ninja survive?

Neji can not locate Naruto, but the female star ninja saved him. Naruto meets Natsuhi and learns tthat Sumaru is her son. Our ninjas finally determine the entire plot behind the leader. Naruto also learns the history behind the star. Naruto attacks Akahoshi to prevent him from regaining the star, we also learn that it was him who killed the previous leader of the village. The rest of the team races to the battle, will they get there in time?

The two ninjas battle using their beasts and Lee and TenTen bring the rest of the ninjas from the village to the battle. With Samaru's life in Atkahoshi's hands, Natsuhi is forced to surrender. Neji commands both Lee and Naruto to yield, even though they wish to stop Atkahoshi. Neji realizes that both Sumaru and his mother have been damaged by the power of the star. Sumaru and his mother reunite, but his mother returns to village to destroy the star. She is stabbed in the back by Atkahoshi and dies. Sumaru now charges into the village seeking revenge.